Time in Flight
34 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsTime-in-Flight peels back the layer of mystery that can surround aviation flight training. By interviewing current flight instructors, students and professional pilots who have gone through the flight training experience, Time-in-Flight hopes to provide insight and excitement for those aspiring and currently undertraining the flight training adventure, as aviation students.
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Episode 33: Peter Zaccagnino - Reno Air Race Hall of Famer, Author & Aviation Business Owner
December 29, 2021 11:33 - 53 minutes - 43.7 MBPeter Zaccagnino went to Embry Riddle for an engineering degree. While he was learning about aerospace engineering, he was taking flight training and was getting to amass experience with flying sky-divers and getting tailwheel experience initially in a Pitts Biplane and then a Cessna 195, with a rotary engine. He was 19 when used that Pitts to get into aerobatic flying and discusses what that preflight entails. Peter loves to flight instruct in the MIG-29. He also likes to teach out of large...
Episode 32: Audrey Menezes - A Woman Pilot, Originally from Mumbai, Discusses Flight Training, Regional Airlines and Flying Part 135
November 12, 2021 15:59 - 48 minutes - 32.5 MBBorn in Mumbai, India. Moved to New York when she was a little girl. Her first love was music and she can play 7 instruments. Audrey fell in love with aviation at 16 and started going to Embry Riddle to be an aerospace engineer. That’s where she learned she actually wanted to fly and left Embry Riddle to pursue her flying career. She did her Private and Instrument training in Cirrus SR-22. It took her about 3 years to get the 1500 hours she needed to get to ATP and around age 22 she joined a...
Episode 31: Mike Geyer - From Flight Instructor & C5 Load Master to Regional Airline Captain
August 28, 2021 18:00 - 59 minutes - 54.2 MBMike Geyer First was introduced to flying by his father, while he was stationed in Japan for the Navy. His father gave Mike his first discovery flight as a present for his 11th birthday and this was the ‘fish-hook’ moment for him for wanted to become an aviator. After high school he decided to attend an aviation university in Louisiana but after two years, he was notified that program was going to close down to ‘reorganize’ and he was given a decision to change his major and wait for the p...
Episode 30: Hunter Dunlop - Gets His Commercial License
July 20, 2021 06:04 - 42 minutes - 35.2 MBHunter Dunlap-Getting Commercial during Covid This guest has been on the show before during the 2018 Oshkosh Air show, were recorded under the wing. The reason Hunter has returned to the show is that he has reached a major aviation milestone and earned his Commercial pilots license. As a non-career aviator, Hunter explains his passion and reason for pursuing an advanced aviation license that is not required for a private aviator. He discusses how speaking with friends and fellow pilots hel...
Episode 29: James Onieal - Owner of Raven Career Development & Pilot for Navaid Certification
March 28, 2021 17:42 - 1 hour - 47.1 MBIn this episode, our guest is James Onieal who has a wide variety of pilot experience from flight instructing at Embry Riddle, flying turbo-props at Colgan Air, Embraers 170s at Republic as well as being the youngest pilot hired and subsequently furloughed from Netjets. He currently does navaid verification flight checks as well as an entrepreneur, as the founder of Raven Career Development (www.ravencareers.com). James got his start in aviation during his time in high school when he start...
Episode 28: Austin Kaminski - Regional Airline Captain
January 06, 2021 15:07 - 38 minutes - 34.5 MBThis episode’s guest is Austin Kaminski, who is a native of Northern Virginia and is now a captain at a regional airline. Austin discusses how the National Air and Space Museum really inspired him to pursue aviation as a career. As a child, his father would also take him down to Gravelly Point, which is an area within the National Park Service's George Washington Memorial Parkway in Arlington County, Virginia. It is located on the west side of the Potomac River, north of Ronald Regan airport...
Episode 27: Covid-19 = A Year In Review 2020
October 30, 2020 01:58 - 47 minutes - 43.5 MBCOVID-19 Follow up Episode. In this show Peter Teuten and I look back at our initial predictions of how the Corona Virus would affect the aviation industry back in March of this year. Now in October, we saw that the TSA passenger numbers hit over 1 million in a given day for the first time since the pandemic began. We discuss how it has effect the 121 commercial flying as well as the private charter/fractional ownership air-transport models. As Peter says, “The math is the math” and what it...
Episode 26: Bill Sivley - Newly Certified Flight Instructor & His First In-Air Emergency
June 22, 2020 21:05 - 56 minutes - 53.9 MBThis episode’s guest is Bill Sivley, who at age 53, recently earned his Flight Instructors License. The very next day, Bill was flying an aircraft he is part owner in, and experienced an in-air emergency. The engine of his C182 stopped functioning properly. Bill describes what happened in the 5 minutes and 33 seconds that followed and the training the lead up to him having a successful conclusion to the situation. Bill discusses how having another pilot with him helped as well as the roll of...
Episode 25: Tyler Dodson - Regional Airline Captain by Age 24
June 05, 2020 13:22 - 37 minutes - 34.7 MBThis show’s guest is Tyler Dodson, a Captain that I recently flew with at a Regional Airline. He got his start in flying in high school and perused his aviation career by flight instruction and flying King Airs. He was hired as a regional pilot on his 21st birthday. He made captain by age 24 and is currently writing a book about his aviation adventures and stories he has experienced. Tyler has many stories of challenges that he faced on his road to becoming a commercial pilot, as well as w...
Episode 24: Will Kool - Regional Airline Captain and Life During COVID-19
April 30, 2020 00:29 - 32 minutes - 29.4 MBWill Kool joins us this episode to discuss how he got into aviation and how in his quest to achieve this dream of flying, took him to many places around the country and to many different jobs, so aviation some not. He also goes on to discuss his unique perspective of the COVID-19 virus, since his spouse is a medical doctor. Will goes on to give some advice on what aviation resources he uses to stay in contact with his aviation communities such as: Women in Aviation, OBAP, NGPA, AOPA and Flyi...
Episode 23: (Special Edition) Corona Virus [COVID-19] and Its Effects on Aviation
March 23, 2020 02:50 - 27 minutes - 25.5 MBWelcome to the first special edition of Time In Flight. During this episode, I bring back my former flight instructor and friend, Peter Teuten, to discuss the various effects the Corona Virus (COVID-19) has had on both fractional ownership and Part 121 commercial flying. We take a look at what we have learned and the trends that have been already changing the aviation world as we know it. We also ask some hard questions about where we see these trends leading and what some of the possible o...
Episode 22: Tom Gavin - Growing Up With An Aviation Father
March 16, 2020 22:29 - 34 minutes - 31.7 MBTom Gavin grew up in Western Massachusetts and remembers during his formative school years what it was like to have his father learn how to fly in the late 1970’s but how aviation was such a strong community for him and his father for the remainder of his father’s life. Even though Tom did not take up aviation himself, he has very fond memories of the love his father had for it and the new friends that it brought into their lives. Tom relays how the bond between him and father was improved ...
Episode 22: Tom Gavin - Growing Up With His Father Learning to Fly and the Aviation Impressions It Made
March 16, 2020 22:29 - 34 minutes - 31.7 MBTom Gavin grew up in Western Massachusetts and remembers during his formative school years what it was like to have his father learn how to fly in the late 1970’s but how aviation was such a strong community for him and his father for the remainder of his father’s life. Even though Tom did not take up aviation himself, he has very fond memories of the love his father had for it and the new friends that it brought into their lives. Tom relays how the bond between him and father was improved ...
Episode 21: Michael Ancel - Earning Aviation Ratings while Starting College
January 27, 2020 21:12 - 42 minutes - 39.7 MBThis episode focuses on Michael Ancel, who at age 21 is working on his commercial pilot’s license, during his freshman year in college. He discusses what it was like while earning his private and instrument ratings while in high school, with a full curriculum. Michael also talks about how he selected his major or Aerospace Engineering and why he chose his current college. Finally, we talked about a trip to JFK airport in a Cessna 172 to pick up his sister from college.
Episode 20: Chuck Lund - From Radio Host to King Air Business Owner
December 31, 2019 22:12 - 40 minutes - 37.7 MBChuck began his professional life as a radio host. During that journey he discovered he loved aviation and wanted to fly. From there he figured out how to get lessons, get a job and ultimately became an aviation business owner. He has also flown for regional and cargo airlines. Now Chuck is enjoying being an instructor for new regional airline pilots.
Episode 19: Rick Cahall - From Sheriff's Office to Regional Pilot
November 05, 2019 23:35 - 43 minutes - 40.1 MBIn this episode, our guest, Rick Cahill who just changed careers into aviation discusses his story from originally being in the Marines, to working at a Sheriff’s Office full time and then deciding to go back to school at age 35 and get not only a 4-year degree in aviation but get all the aviation ratings necessary to get him a job as a regional airline pilot. All this while buying and selling his houses and having children along the way. Rick attended Middle Tennessee State University’s av...
Episode 18: Chris Coward - The Final Hurdle of the Commercial Pilots License
July 13, 2019 01:14 - 39 minutes - 37.4 MBChris Coward is a commercial pilot license applicant, as well as a college student. He discusses the trails, challenges and triumphs of what his journey on the commercial license has been. We also talk about the recent FAA changes to the commercial pilot license requirements and how training for the license has changed. We also look at the various avionics packages that he has used along the way as well as some online resources that he has found helpful in finding answers to the aviation que...
Episode 17: Rob Evans - The long road to Private Pilot
June 30, 2019 22:26 - 38 minutes - 35.5 MBThis episode hosts Rob Evans, who is a long time friend of mine, who, a couple of years ago was inspired to earn his pilot’s license. He currently lives in the Settle area and had to face a host of challenges when it came to his training. This was recorded while his was a still a student pilot. This episode, which was originally recorded during Thanksgiving 2018, is being published out of order, so that it can honor Rob and his achievement of earning his Private Pilot’s License just the oth...
Episode 16: Stephen Black-Flight Instructor to Regional Airlines by 21
April 17, 2019 19:49 - 40 minutes - 38.1 MBRecorded on location in Orlando, FL. Stephen Black discusses his path from being a philosophy major to now a regional airline pilot. Stephen went to large flight school where he earned most of his ratings, to where he began his flight instruction. From there, he found a great opportunity to instruct at really small grass field, which proved to be exactly opposite from what he was used to. Stephen then describes some of the major learning points that he took way from flight instructing and di...
Episode 15: Mike Swanigan - Alaska Airlines Captain, Retired
March 09, 2019 21:35 - 1 hour - 69.4 MBIn this episode, Captain Mike Swanigan describes his entry into to flight training and how he began his amazing career at Alaska Airlines. Mike discusses the challenges of not only having a challenging first solo course, but also with his not-so-straight-forward entry into Air Force flight training. He talks about how he was able to achieve his goals by not giving up and building relationships within the aviation community. Mike also discusses the lessons he learned from his pilot mentors, a...
Episode 14: Jared Keeny - Student Pilot & Aircraft Mechanic
February 19, 2019 04:25 - 37 minutes - 30.2 MBIn this episode, our guest Jared Keeny discusses what life is like as not only as an mechanic on the airfield but what life is like as a student pilot and how he juggles a full time job, a family with 3 kids and flight training. Jared describes how just because it may seem easy for him to get to flight training because he works right next door to the flight school that it isn't as easy to get in as much as he would like. Please check us out on Instagram: @timeinflight Or email: Hunter@...
Episode 13: (New Years Edition) Enrico Bernoni - Software Engineer & Flight Instructor
January 02, 2019 21:36 - 40 minutes - 38.1 MBHAPPY NEW YEARS! In this episode we explore what it’s like for Enrico to have a full-time job and still find time to be a part-time flight instructor. Enrico has had a passion for aviation for some time, ever since he got first earned his private pilot’s license back in 2003. Since then he went on to get is instrument, commercial, flight instructor-airplane and flight instructor instrument ratings. Enrico discusses his time management techniques as well as some of training aids that they...
Episode 12: Craig Shaver - Retired EVA Airlines Captain & ATP Instructor
December 18, 2018 02:47 - 23 minutes - 18.9 MBCraig Shaver joins us on this episode to discuss his experiences while flying with the U.S. Air force, serving on the flight crew at Eastern Airlines, working aboard for foreign carriers and ultimately retiring for EVA Airlines as Captain. Craig discusses how those experiences made him a more rounded and worldly pilot. He talks about how working with aviators from other countries helped expand his skillset and working knowledge of how other counties and pilots accomplished their tasks with o...
Episode 11: Greg Calvert - Instrument Pilot, Jet Mechanic & Airplane Owner
November 09, 2018 19:09 - 34 minutes - 28.7 MBIn this episode, Greg Calvert joins the show to discuss his wholehearted journey into aviation. Greg jumped into aviation with both feet, with first getting his inspiration to fly from his father and then finding his vocation by become and airframe and power plant (A&P) mechanic on aircraft. He works on large corporate jets by day and on his off time, he is working on either his airplane or achieving his next pilot’s certificate. References: Movie- One-Six-Right Event-Pancake Breakfast...
Episode 10: Devin Durant - New Private Pilot and Future UND Aviation Student
October 12, 2018 16:00 - 36 minutes - 29.7 MBTime In Flight: Episode 10 – Devin Durant On this episode, Devin Durant, who just received his Private Pilots License (PPL) the day before, shares his experience and journey of what it was like to obtain this pilots license. He describes what it was like to start with very little information on how to fly but a deep desire to be amongst the clouds. Devin ultimately attended three different flight schools before completing his training. He discusses how each one brought a unique experience...
Episode 9: Oshkosh '18 Edition - Hunter Dunlap: Private Pilot & Medical Resident
September 30, 2018 16:00 - 27 minutes - 22.3 MBThis episode was recorded on location at the Oshkosh 2018 AirVenture Air Show, in Oshkosh, Wisconsin with our guest Hunter Dunlap. Hunter is currently a medical resident located in Baltimore, MD. His passion for aviation was strong but now that the he had the amazing experience of seeing what the world’s largest air show has to offer first hand, if he already wasn’t excited about the world of aviation, he is now! In this interview, we discuss what it was like to fly to the Air show from Ba...
Episode 8: Scott Bonjukian Co-Hosts: Remote Pilot and Urban Planner
September 17, 2018 16:10 - 33 minutes - 27.7 MBScott Bonjukian joins Time in Flight as a Co-host from his Cascadia Podcast. Scott is a newly minted Part 107 Remote Pilot. This episode discusses the overlap between manned and unmanned aviation and urban planning design and the impacts that future technology may hold for both urban planners and pilots. This episode also takes us into the flight deck of a Cessna 172 as both the hosts of the show go on a general aviation flight around the Chesapeake Bay. References: Rotor Drone Mag...
Episode 7: Joe Mancini - Private Pilot, Airplane Mechanic and Aircraft Owner
July 17, 2018 18:11 - 35 minutes - 29.5 MBThis interview is with a fellow airplane enthusiast, private pilot and flight school airplane mechanic. Joe discusses how he became interested in aviation and how he started on his path toward becoming an airplane airframe and powerplant (A&P) mechanic. He also discusses what it is like to also a single engine aircraft owner as well. Also, TimeInFlight is now on Instagram @TimeInFlight.
Episode 6: Fathers Day Edition - Robert Bonjukian: Director of System Operations Alaska Airlines
June 12, 2018 11:14 - 35 minutes - 28.8 MBHappy Father's Day from Time in Flight. To celebrate the occasion, this episode hosts a very special father figure of mine, who had a very interesting a career in aviation and continues to stay involved in the commercial and general aviation communities. Happy Father's Day!
Episode 5: Ryan Gauthier - Flight Instructor & Owner Operator of Action Multi Ratings
June 01, 2018 10:23 - 24 minutes - 20.3 MBIn this exciting episode, I get to interview the Owner of Action Multi Ratings after completing my Multi-engine check ride in Groton, CT. Ryan Gauthier describes the motivations that first got him into flying and how his passion lead him to seek out an aviation education at a university in Florida. From there he describes the series of events that eventually lead him to become a flight instructor back at his home town in Groton. From there Ryan discusses how he eventually came to own the f...
Episode 4: Myriam Lucke: From High School Teacher to 747 & 767 Pilot at UPS
May 14, 2018 21:38 - 45 minutes - 36.8 MBMyriam discusses how she got started in Aviation, from her original career choice of being a high school teacher. She outlines how she was able to achieve her aviation licenses using the local airfield by where she was living at the time. She mentions how building a good reputation around the airfield is very helpful when learning how to fly and listening to the more experienced pilots share their wisdom at the field. Myriam also discusses how she got her first job working for a regional air...
Episode 3: Jay Delozier: Full Time Flight Instructor
April 17, 2018 03:13 - 32 minutes - 26.9 MBShow Notes for Episode 3: Jay Delozier This episode focuses on what motivated Jay to become a flight instructor and what life is like now that he is one. We take a look of the journey that Jay as been on as he first discovered his love for aviation all the way through to where he is currently teaching students today. During our conversation, Jay discusses what he learned during his time as a flight student and how is perspective on aviation changed, once he achieved the level of flight i...
Episode 2: Tim Crisp - Flight Instructor's Journey to Airline Captain
April 04, 2018 23:17 - 36 minutes - 29.8 MBWelcome to the second episode of Time In Flight. Our guest today spent several years as an active flight instructor and has since moved up the ranks to Captain in a regional airline. Tim discusses how his journey began and why it took him three different flight schools to obtain his private pilot’s license. He then discusses how he went from wanting to fly recreationally to making aviation a career and how he decided to become a flight instructor. Tim discusses the concepts and tools that...
Episode 1: Peter Teuten-Flight Instructor & Professional Pilot
March 21, 2018 19:43 - 37 minutes - 31.1 MBWelcome to the first episode of Time-in-Flight! In this episode is an interview with my first flight instructor, turned professional pilot, to discuss his adventures in Aviation. He first describes life in England in the 1970’s and 1980’s and his introduction to aviation. Then he explains what it was like to take a 15 year break from flying and what re-ignited his passion for aviation in the United States. He explores the differences between what it was like to fly then vs. now and flying...